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Poetic Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Two or more consecutive sounds |
| Assonance | Rhyme is in the vowel |
| Consonance | Rhyme is in the consonant |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Irony | Opposite meanings to words |
| Metaphor | Direct comparison |
| Onomatopeoia | Words as sounds |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Paradox | Two seemingly equal choices, but one is better |
| Personification | Giving non-human things human-like characteristics |
| Repetition | Repeated parts |
| Rhythm | The beat/flow of the poem |
| Rhyme | Ending parts of words that sound similar |
| Stanza | A group lines or a "paragraph" in a poem |
| Symbolism | Something that stands for something else |
| Mood | The overall feeling of the work |
| Tone | The attitude of the speaker |
| Voice | The way a speaker portrays the work |
| Lyric | Poem about happy love |
| Ballad | Poem about a strong emotion, typically love |
| Epic | Long poem, usually involving a hero |
| Free verse | No rules |
| Ode | Dedication poem of honor to something or someone |
| Descriptive | Using one or more senses to describe something |
| Sonnet | Fourteen lined-poem with a rhyming couplet at the end. |